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RECOVERING. WARREN BUFFETT, 69, homespun multibillionaire; after colon surgery to remove noncancerous polyps; in Omaha, Neb. The operation was made public to prevent rumors that could have affected his company's share price.
"Of course I affected the lives of many people with these decisions, but my main goal was to prevent the wealthy people from taking money out of the country," he said. "Of course I made mistakes...All of our actions were in good faith. I never intended to damage anybody...
In 1992 Dr. Allen Roses, a rapier-tongued contrarian then at Duke University, challenged the beta-amyloid orthodoxy. He announced that he and his colleagues had found a major Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene that affected the late-onset forms of the disease. It was the gene for APOE4, a common...
Cory: Just to give you an idea how onerous this is, last year alone there were 37 new federal and state regulations that affected small businesses. It's a nightmare. You have to hire advisers and CPAs to help you. Then you have to pray they make no mistakes.
Hasty: You know, it has really affected certain industries hard, because a lot of manufacturing has moved to Mexico. What's happening is that unskilled jobs are moving out of this country fast. Which leads us to the question, What do we do with the unskilled work force until they...